A top U.S. lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday said he is working to develop a bill to impose mandatory guidelines on Internet companies to protect user privacy, because the current voluntary approach is falling short.Rep. Rick Boucher, a Democrat from Virginia that heads the telecommunications subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, described his intent as putting “mandatory guidelines applicable to all Websites.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE52A6JN20090312A Call to Legislate Internet Privacy
The debate on Internet privacy has begun in Congress.I had a chance to sit down recently with Representative Rick Boucher, the long-serving Virginia Democrat, who has just replaced Ed Markey, the Democrat from Massachusetts, as the chairman of the House Subcommittee looking after telecommunications, technology and the Internet. Mr. Boucher is widely regarded as one of the most technologically savvy members of Congress.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/a-call-to-legislate-internet-privacy/
U.S. privacy bill on Internet companies coming
A top U.S. lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday said he is working to develop a bill to impose mandatory guidelines on Internet companies to protect user privacy, because the current voluntary approach is falling short.